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PALAEOGRAPHIC COLLECTION OF BINDING FRAGMENTS, in Latin, DECORATED AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM [Italy and France, 13th and 14th centuries
PALAEOGRAPHIC COLLECTION OF BINDING FRAGMENTS, in Latin, DECORATED AND ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS ON VELLUM [Italy and France, 13th and 14th centuries] 26 part-leaves or bifolia from 7 manuscripts, all with decorated flourished initials: including 2 part-bifolia from an illuminated and glossed Gratian Decretum , one with two coats of arms charged with black bears likely those of the Caccianemico dell'Orso of Bologna and the Orso of Venice [Bologna or Padua, early 14th century]; 1 bifolium and 4 part-bifolia from a theological exegesis [France, 13th century]; 7-part bifolia from a glossed Justinian Codex [Italy, 13th century]; 7 part-bifolia from glossed ?Justinian Corpus Juris Civilis ', [Italy, 14th century]; 1 part-bifolium from a glossed Justinian Institutes , book 1 [Italy, 14th century; 3 part-bifolia of a commentary on the Psalms [France, 13th century]; 1 part-bifolium from a Verbal Concordance of the Bible [France, c.1300]. All recovered from bindings or used as wrappers and paste-downs and consequently worn and defective. Nonetheless with the glosses and extensive annotations in addition to their central texts, these leaves reflect a rich variety of scripts and scribal conventions. They include, for example, the different means of linking gloss with the text they interpret -- symbols, letters and underlining.